INFORMATION ON COOKIES
Understanding how and why we use cookies
As you may be aware, recent legislation requires websites to gain visitors’ consent to use certain cookies.
We use cookies on our website (sotaliraq.com) to create the most effective website possible for our users. Among other things, the cookies we use allow us to improve your experience when using our website and to ensure the website performs as you expect it to.
We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
To make full use of the features and services we offer at sotaliraq.com, your computer, tablet or mobile phone will need to accept cookies, as we can only provide you with certain features of this website by using them. By using the sotaliraq.com website you agree to our use of cookies as described in our cookie policy.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them on sotaliraq.com and what benefits they bring.
What are cookies?
When you use our website, we may store some information on your computer in the form of a helpful file known as a “cookie”. Cookies are used to improve the online experience of almost every website, including our own.
We never use the data gathered through cookies on this site to contact you via post, email or phone.
Cookies used on this website
We set some cookies directly, and we also make use of some services which set their own cookies. We believe it is important to be clear about any cookies that are being set, so we have provided a list to explain this to you.
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We may collect information about your computer including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
We also use third party advertisements on sotaliraq.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/2839090?hl=en
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Please visit the link below for more information regarding how Google uses cookies
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/cookies/
DISQUS Cookies
Sotaliraq.com also makes use of the DISQUS third party comment system, you can find more information regarding their cookies policy at the following link: https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-use-of-cookies
You can find here more information about the Privacy Policy of Sotaliraq.com
https://www.sotaliraq.com/privacy-policy.html